The Binghamton Senators battled back from a two-goal deficit to force overtime and take home a point in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Philadelphia Phantoms on Wednesday night at Wachovia Spectrum.

Rookie Claude Giroux buried his 15th marker of the season for Philadelphia’s first goal 11 minutes into the opening period. Just over one minute later winger Josh Gratton beat netminder Brian Elliott to make it a two-goal game.

Binghamton owned the second period, outshooting the Phantoms 18-8 and evening the game at 2 apiece. Veteran winger Danny Bois put the B-Sens on the scoreboard with a short-handed goal, the first of the year for the team, off a feed from defenseman Mattias Karlsson. Bois now has goals in two straight games.

The B-Sens took advantage of one of their few power-play chances late in the second period when Josh Hennessy beat netminder Michael Teslak for his seventh goal of the season. Ryan Shannon and Matt Carkner assisted on the game-tying goal. Since returning from his knee injury, Carkner has two assists in three games.

Following a scoreless third period, the Phantoms struck for the game-winning goal at 1:28 of overtime off the stick of Nate Raduns.

Brian Elliott made 21 saves in the losing effort. The B-Sens (13-9-3-3, 32 pts.) remain in fifth place of the East Division and host Syracuse (14-13-0-1, 29 pts.) on Friday night at 7:05 p.m. Good seats remain for this contest. Tickets can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com, by calling ticket master at 722-7272, or at the Arena box office inside the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.